Khary Saeed Jones

Years after being stalked by a vigilante down back roads in rural Canada, a filmmaker returns seeking closure. "Night Fight" chronicles his journey through the shadow life this encounter created and his struggle to share with his son the truth about a world where such dangers lurk unspoken.

The death of Michael Brown, shot by a Ferguson, Missouri police officer in 2014, was national news after protests erupted there. But the history of Ferguson, a formerly whites-only "sundown town,” and the neighboring black town of Kinloch, now semi-abandoned, is not well known. Incorporating reflections of residents of Kinloch and Ferguson (including Gillooly, who grew up in Ferguson), this film explores the relationship between these two towns. Beginning with a 1960s roadblock that divided then-white Ferguson from black Kinloch, the film depicts a micro-history of race relations in America.